Grade Passback with Schoology

Assignments with ungraded submissions appear in the Grading Queue on your Homepage. Select an assignment to open its overview page, which shows each student's status: Not Submitted, Needs grading, Graded & unreleased, or Released.

You can filter by status using the tabs at the top of the page.

Select a student whose status is Needs grading to open their submission.

Auto-graded questions like multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and drag-and-drop questions are graded automatically as soon as the student submits. For each one, you can add an explanation of why the answer was right or wrong — either write it yourself in the Explanation field or select Generate to have AI draft one for you.

For Free-response questions, you have three options:

The Grading Progress panel in the lower-left corner tracks how many questions you've graded, so you always know what's left.

When you've finished grading, select Release Grades in the upper-right corner of the screen.

This opens a modal that shows exactly what will happen when you release: which questions and scores the student will see in Kira (along with any feedback you wrote), and what will be sent to Schoology. By default, every graded question is selected.

A note on partial grades: Kira never sends partial grades to Schoology — it only syncs one total score for the whole assignment. If you deselect a question in the modal, a banner appears explaining that students will still see the released questions in Kira, but nothing is sent to Schoology until every question has been released. You can select Release all to send now from the banner to release everything and sync the total immediately.

Select Release to confirm.

To see synced grades, select Gradebook from the left-hand menu in Schoology. Lessons appear as columns, students appear as rows, and each cell shows the student's total grade for that lesson.